"Aspinall, whose son James, 18, was one of the 97 people killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, has with other bereaved families fought ever since against police lies, and for the truth and justice, confronting many false promises and a lot of prime ministers. But on stage in Liverpool she praised Starmer, saying he was the only person to pledge the Hillsborough law and he's been the only person to fulfil it and see it through."
"The Hillsborough law, he said, was a recognition that in the Britain that we are building, the state will see, the state will listen, the state will be accountable to working people because now injustice has no place to hide. So much did Starmer seek to take ownership of the law, that he personally introduced it in the House of Commons at second reading, a highly unusual move, but one that seemed to be a rare light for Labour MPs used to months of gloom,"
Margaret Aspinall praised Keir Starmer for pledging and delivering the Hillsborough law after decades of campaigning by bereaved families. Starmer framed the law as state accountability to working people and personally introduced it at second reading in the House of Commons. Four months later families from Hillsborough and the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing entered talks with the prime minister but left saying they could not support the law. Starmer spent 90 minutes with family members including Aspinall and the law's architect, Pete Weatherby KC. Central to the dispute was how the duty of candour in public office would be defined and implemented.
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